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Recent Posts Tagged With 'Chocolate'

Aug 14

Flourless Chocolate Cakes with Chocolate Glaze & Sugared Berries

Hope everyone is enjoying the weekend and the beautiful weather.  I can’t believe summer is almost coming to an end and the kids will be back to school soon.  The winter months always seem to drag on yet summer seems to just fly by. I mentio (read full article)

Baking & Pastry, baking and pastry, Baking Mise en Place, Cakes, Chocolate, Chocolate cake, Chocolate Dessert, chocolate glaze, Fillings, Frostings & Dessert Sauces, flourless cakes

Aug 11

Chocolate Buttermilk Layer Cake – Oh So Delicious!

What a fantastic weekend!  My niece, V, was married on Saturday.  The wedding was amazing and V looked absolutely stunning!  I think I cried throughout the entire ceremony (thank goodness I brought a few packages of kleenex). It was a crazy busy (read full article)

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Aug 05

The Ultimate Chocolate Lover’s Breakfast – Chocolate French Toast

I love cooking breakfast on the weekends.  I love the wonderful aroma’s that linger throughout the house, bacon frying, onions sauteing, butter simmering, freshly grated cinnamon for the french toast and of course the sweet aroma of chocolate (read full article)

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Aug 02

Chocolate Mud Cake, Dark Chocolate Ganache and Sweet Glazed Cherries

I was entertaining over the weekend and wanted to make an extra special chocolate dessert, something simple yet luxurious.  Donna Hay’s Chocolate Mud Cake with Dark Chocolate Ganache would be perfect.  When I was flipping through Donna’ (read full article)

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Jul 28

Craving Chocolate? Quick and Easy 3 Minute Sweet Cake In A Mug

Happy Wednesday everyone!  I am a big food photography fan and you can usually find me drooling all over the food pics at FoodGawker. It’s amazing how many talented cooks and bakers there are out there. Last week a couple of pics stood out to (read full article)

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Jul 23

Donna Hay’s Double Chocolate Brownie Semifreddo

Get ready for a frozen dessert recipe that is going to knock your socks off! Donna Hay’s Double Chocolate Brownie Semifreddo is out of this world! I cheated a little this time and used store-bought brownies but next time I’m going for go (read full article)

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Jul 19

Devil’s Food Cupcakes

Thank goodness, the weekend is over!  You won’t hear me say that very often but I really felt out of sorts this weekend with my son, Matt, off to Toronto.  He made a comment just before leaving and it sat with me the entire time he was gone. (read full article)

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Jul 18

Double-Chocolate Chunk Cookies

What a quiet weekend!  My son, Matthew, is away for the weekend and my daughter, Liana, has been hiding in the living room, engrossed in a 1000-piece puzzle that she can’t seem to tear herself away from. The house feels so empty and it is extr (read full article)

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Jul 16

Want To Learn How To Make Gordon Ramsay’s Favourite Dessert? – Hot Chocolate Fondant

Gordon Ramsay and his thoughts on Hot Chocolate Fondant – “Whenever I’m asked for my favourite recipe, this is the one.  It has a divine melting texture and the liquid centre is sublime.” My thoughts on Gordon’s Favour (read full article)

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Jul 09

Brownie Hearts – Chocolate Goodness

Obviously the mad confusion of yesterday has spilt on to today.  Hope you enjoy the Raspberry, Blueberry, Cream Cheese and Mascarpone Pound Cakes I shared with you earlier today but I completely forgot to share my other delicious treat with you. Did (read full article)

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Jun 25

One-Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes with Creamy Peanut Butter Frosting

For the last few weeks I’ve found myself thinking back to my years in elementary school, not really sure why.  It could be Marly’s series, Real People, Real Names. Marly’s had me thinking about my proper name, the name my parents c (read full article)

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Jun 18

Chocolate Custard Tartlettes

It’s been a very quiet week, not much happening on the home front.  In fact a new friend, Marly, mentioned I was probably feeling a bit of after party sadness now that my niece V’s bridal shower has come and gone, I believe she is right (read full article)

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Jun 04

Chocolate Explosion – Chocolate Hazelnut Tart

Last fall, Liana and I attended Jamie Oliver’s talk  in Toronto, on the Food Revolution.  Jamie also engaged in a question and answer period after his talk.  He had us laughing one minute and then in the next minute he had the audience analy (read full article)

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May 27

Gordon Ramsay’s Four-Minute Chocolate Mousse

May used to be my most favourite month of the year, full of celebrations. My birthday, my husband and I met in May, got engaged in May and we married in May and of course Mother’s day.  That all changed 6 years ago, yesterday was the anniversa (read full article)

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May 24

Dark Chocolate-Almond Crackles & Chocolate Thumbprints

This is the first time in a long time that I remember the weather being so beautiful for the long weekend. Other than Saturday, the sun has been shining and it is so warm. Last night I had the perfect view to the neighbourhood fireworks, the sky was (read full article)

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